Access Vmware Esxi from Ubuntu 12.04.1
Hi Everyone I want to access my Vmware Esxi 5 Server from Ubuntu 12.04.1 system. In Windows It can be access using Vsphere Client, but there is no client available for Ubuntu Linux. How can I take...
View ArticleBest way to move a VM to new hardware
I've got a SBS 2011 VM running on ESXi 5. The hardware is not adequate and the performance is slow. I want to move the SBS 2011 VM to new hardware. After installling ESXi on the new hardware, what...
View ArticleMaintenance mode enough to shutdown SAN and networking?
VMWare Community, We will be performing some maintenance on your SAN and LAN network connecting our HP C-7000 blade system with around 14 ESXi 5.0 hosts and 3 HP Lefthand P4000 Series clusters(6...
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How to check automatically LSI RAID 9240 controller health status
Hi,how can I check status of my controller ? ESXi5I can see it but how can I receive a mail or something other in case of drive failure ? (maybe from virtual machine running in the hostIs there a step...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and E1000 network problem in W2k8 R2
Hi Everybody,We have 2000+ Virtual Machine on 115 physical server. Our hypervisor platform is Esx 4.1 U2.Last week, we decided upgrade Esxi 5.1 with clean install, not upgrade.However, we created a...
View ArticleESXI 5.0 keeps rebooting from unknown reason
Hello,I installed ESXi 5.0.0 on a USB Stick, after couple of weeks it started rebooting suddenly.from viewing the logs, i can't see a pattern (every x dyas \ hours) but what i was able to find is that...
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HP NC382i Reports "The state of the attached network prevents DirectPath I/O"
Hello, So, I attempted to install an ESXi host on an HP Proliant DL380 G6 server and for the most part, everything proceeded rather smoothly. I had the ESXi set up, vCenter was set up and running, and...
View ArticleESXi MKS error
Hi experts,I have an issue "vmware vsphere ESXi MKS error" need your guys help.I have two laptops : the same windows 7, the same vmware vsphere client version 5.1The first laptop can connect to ESXi,...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 installation Kickstart EDA
Hi, I am able to install ESXi 5.1 with EDA. I was wondering where are the logs files kept for the installation and kickstart.cfg file? EDA is just an appliance used for ESXi installation. I guess, no...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Dell MD3200i 2x PowerConnect 6224 iSCSI VLAN Scheme
I am fairly new to ESXi and iSCSI please pardon me for any ignorance. I am really hoping to get some insight from experienced members of this forum. Thanks in advance. My proposed design: 2x Dell...
View ArticleDriver for Intel X540-AT2 and Intel Corporation 4-Port SATA/SAS Controller
Hello together, i'm currently evaluating VMWare vSphere for our company and got stuck on the installation of two devices in an ESXi 5.1 host running on an Intel S2600GZ server board, where both are...
View ArticleVM Nic Sleeping
VMWare 5VM - Windows 2008 R2 64bitNetwork Adapter - VMXNET 3 We just set up a new server a few weeks ago. For some reasone the NIC seems to be going to sleep, we can't ping, attach to the server, or...
View ArticleESXi 5 lab experiement on Home Network
Hi, I've tried to look around for an answer to this question but didn't find an answer. I've installed ESXi. It is up and running great. I can create new VMs and install guest OSes. My problem now is...
View ArticleMemory Errors?
Does anyone know what these warnings indicate? <181>2012-12-27T18:49:42.568Z ESX02.jo.local vmkwarning: cpu0:5118)WARNING: IOMMUIntel: 2371: IOMMU context entry dump for 00:02.0 Ctx-Hi = 0x101...
View ArticleDIsk Size Question
I realise this question has been asken many times and ive read through alot of them, but i am still unsure how to set this up. I have 8 x 600gb drives setup in a RAID 10. This leaves me with 2.4TB of...
View ArticleInstall multiple virtual machines on a single datastore in ESXi
Hi all, I want to install three Virtual machines (VMs) on ESXi sever. I already installed on VM but when I intalled the second VM, I get a warning: Storage Device Warning select “Yes, Discard any...
View Articlehyper-v to VMware coversation
Hi, I am using vCenter 5.1 in my environment. I want to convert hyper-v vm to vmware environment but as per the vmware document we have to first shutdown the hyper-v vm. Is it possible to migrate...
View Articlemigration between datastores online
Hello to all we want to migrate an exchange server 2010 from one storage to another. there is 1 VM running the exchange server on a datastore and 2 more datastores 1 for database and 1 for logs. these...
View ArticleUrgent - Unable to access file [datastore1] bank1/bank1-000001.vdmk since it...
hi I came in the morning and realised I couldn not access the server. When I logged into vcentre i noticed the server in question is not powered on However it should be noted that the target is...
View ArticleWhy Suse linux distribution for Vmware virtual appliances
Hi folks! I was wondering the reason for vmware uses Suse Linux dstribution for all their virtual appliances? Many thanks for your comments! Best regards!
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